Nov
2008
Articles from 12th Nov 2008
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Capacity increase is vote of confidence for airport
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
ONE of Durham Tees Valley Airport's most important scheduled services has been given a major boost. Read
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Fay stays on as chair
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
MARGARET Fay, pictured, is to stay on to chair One NorthEast for an extra year to guide the regional development agency through the current economic downturn, it has been announced. Mrs Fay’s term was due to end in December 2009, but Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has asked that she and the other six UK RDA chairs, due to step down, have their appointments extended by up to one year. “There is a lot of hard work ahead,” she said, “and I will continue to do all I can to support our businesses through these challenging times.” Read
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Lesson for the world
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
A world-leading attempt to redesign the education system around employers’ needs could lead to major changes in received methods of teaching and redefine the relationship between businesses and learning providers, according to the man helping to lead the government’s revolution in the classroom. Read
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Design chief backs Tees enterprise
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
ECONOMIC growth is not driven by banks, it's driven by enterprise, discovery and innovation - something Teesside has in spades, Sir George Cox, former head of the Design Council said yesterday. Read
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ProtEx looks to expand
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
A FAST-GROWTH engineering firm has pledged its future to the Tees Valley after achieving “better than expected” annual results and planning a suite of acquisitions. Read
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£1bn takeover welcomed
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
TEESSIDE bosses at chemical company Lucite have welcomed the £1bn takeover of their business. Read
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Cash to encourage ‘family firms’
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
A £1M INVESTMENT is to support new parents and carers in starting their own businesses for more flexibility in family life. Read
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Awards to recognise service to customers
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
COMPANIES need to give top quality service if they are to hold on to customers and win new business in today’s challenging business environment. Read
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Japanese rival in £1bn deal to take over Lucite
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
ONE of the region’s biggest chemicals operations has been bought by a Far Eastern rival and now expects to expand throughout Europe and the US as a result. Read
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Shanghai firms set to sign contracts
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
THE first of a pipeline of Chinese companies setting up in the North East arrive in the region today in a development which could eventually create hundreds of jobs. Read
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Coca-Cola swallows up historic company
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
DRINKS giant Coca-Cola has spread its business empire into Northumberland with the purchase of a century-old family firm which sells mineral water. Read
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Spending, lending or cutting – how shall we boost economy?
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
A political consensus is emerging that tax cuts are required to stimulate the UK economy. But what does business think? And is fiscal policy the answer? Peter McCusker reports. Read
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Raising the roof over the Government’s tax blunder
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
THERE is nothing terrifically surprising in reporting that business leaders are objecting to paying taxes – it was ever thus, but the current campaign against the extension of Empty Property Rates is probably the most universally popular move in many a year. Read
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Tool-maker in £5m expansion
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
ASPECIALIST tool-making company is going through a period of rapid growth and has secured £5m of bank funding to allow it to develop the business further. Read
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Hire firm prospers as fleets are thinned out
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
AVEHICLE hire firm is looking to capitalise on the economic downturn after setting up its first depot outside the UK and doubling the size of its base in Stockton. Read
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Solicitors will stay faithful to town of their birth
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
ONE of the North East’s oldest legal practices has pledged its future to the town where it was established more than 130 years ago – despite being frustrated in its search for new headquarters. Read
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RMT takes on more staff to cope with development
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
SIX new members of staff have joined a fast-growing North East accountancy practice. Read
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Nightime quick to act on Blu Bambu lease deal
Nov 12 2008 | Business News
ANORTH East leisure company has completed a deal to buy the lease on a Sunderland nightclub, previously owned and operated by stock market-listed Premium Bars and Restaurants. Read
